West Norwood · Chiswick · Glastonbury · Wembley · Hollywood · Las Vegas · Munich
AdeleEvery record is a birthday
Four candles lit, one for each record. Blow one out.
She names her albums after her age: 19, 21, 25, 30. So here are thirty candles. Light them, and at each of those ages the places behind that record come up in the light: a south London high road, a power station turned studio, a farm in Somerset, an observatory over Los Angeles.
19 · 21 · 25 · 30
Thirty candles. Light her age.
Every Adele album is named for the age she was when she wrote its songs. Tap a wick to light up to it, or strike them one at a time.
Skyfall, her theme for the Bond film of the same name, was recorded at Abbey Road Studios with 77 musicians.
Paul Epworth, who had worked with her on 21, co-wrote and produced it.
Adele said recording the strings was one of the proudest moments of her life.
It was first played on her website at seven minutes past midnight on 5 October 2012, 50 years after the first Bond film, Dr No.
A working studio. The front and the zebra crossing outside are on a public street; inside is for booked sessions and events.
SourcesThe Dolby Theatre, Hollywood Boulevard, September 2025. Busition · CC BY 4.0
24 February 2013 · 6801 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles
Dolby Theatre
Skyfall won the Oscar for Original Song at the 85th Academy Awards, on Sunday 24 February 2013, at the Dolby Theatre. The award went to Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth.
She sang it at the ceremony. She had never performed it live for an audience before, and it was her first American performance since the previous year’s Grammys.
She had already won a Golden Globe for it. The Oscars that year also paid tribute to 50 years of James Bond.
The Oscars theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. See it from the street; go in for a show.
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London music tours
London
Live marketplace results for London music walking tours. Check each itinerary for Abbey Road, Soho and the West End.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas · 18 November 2022 to 23 November 2024
Weekends, and a T-shirt cannon.
In a clip posted in July 2023 she told the crowd to stop throwing things at performers, then fired a T-shirt into the audience from a T-shirt cannon. One pump lands in the front stalls; three reach the back rows.
Front stalls
Middle
Back rows
Nothing in the air yet.
Front stallsNo shirt here yet.
MiddleNo shirt here yet.
Back rowsNo shirt here yet.
A 4,300-seat theatre inside Caesars Palace on the Strip. Go in with a ticket for a show.
SourcesThe Colosseum at Caesars Palace, at night. Supercarwaar · CC BY-SA 4.0
Caesars Palace
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas
The Strip, Las Vegas
The resort around the Colosseum, at 3570 Las Vegas Boulevard South: 3,980 rooms, more than 300 of them suites, in five towers over 85 acres of the Strip. Book through its own site.
In August 2024 Adele played ten shows in a purpose-built outdoor arena at Messe München, Munich’s trade-fair grounds.
Adele on the 220-metre screen at Messe München, 9 August 2024. Oroborvs · CC BY-SA 4.0
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The arena held 76,000 people a night, a pop-up amphitheatre with a stadium’s capacity, built on a giant car park. More than 730,000 tickets were sold.
Behind the stage ran one LED screen 220 metres long and 20 metres high, made of 6,200 tiles. Guinness World Records named it the largest continuous outdoor LED screen (temporary).
Around the arena stood Adele World: a pop-up pub, a bar named after I Drink Wine, food stalls, a karaoke stage and a Ferris wheel.
Munich’s trade-fair grounds, on the U2 to Messestadt Ost. The arena was built for August 2024 only.
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A Munich U-Bahn sign on 3 August 2024: extra trains to Messestadt for the Adele concert. Renardo la vulpo · CC0
Visit
Now
In November 2025 Tom Ford cast her in his film of Anne Rice’s Cry to Heaven, her first acting role. Filming was set to start in London and Rome that January.
13 places you can visit. Greg Kurstin’s home studio is private, and so are the homes she grew up in, so none of them is on the map.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: area · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A south London high road of shops and terraces. West Norwood station, on the line from London Bridge and Victoria, is at the top of the hill. The homes she grew up in are private and not on the map.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working school. See the building from The Crescent; there is no public access.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working recording studio. See the building from Chiswick High Road; the studios are for booked sessions only.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working studio. The front and the zebra crossing outside are on a public street; inside is for booked sessions and events.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working concert hall in South Kensington, across the road from Kensington Gardens. Go in for a concert.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Stadium tours go behind the scenes, into areas usually kept for players and performers; book on the stadium’s site.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working West End theatre, by Oxford Circus. Go in for a show.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: area · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A royal park in central London, open daily and free to walk.
1Norwood Road, West Norwood, 2012. Robin Drayton · CC BY-SA 2.0
Norwood Road, West Norwood, south London
West Norwood
Hometown Glory was the first song Adele wrote. She was 16, and it took about ten minutes.
A south London high road of shops and terraces. West Norwood station, on the line from London Bridge and Victoria, is at the top of the hill. The homes she grew up in are private and not on the map.
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2The BRIT School, Selhurst, 2009. Peter Trimming · CC BY-SA 2.0
60 The Crescent, Selhurst, Croydon
The BRIT School
The BRIT School opened in Selhurst, Croydon, in 1991.
A working school. See the building from The Crescent; there is no public access.
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3The Power House, Chiswick, home of Metropolis Studios, 2021. Ian Alexander · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Power House, Chiswick High Road, west London
Metropolis Studios
Tom Elmhirst mixed Rolling in the Deep in Studio C at Metropolis, in west London, on a 72-channel Neve VR console.
A working recording studio. See the building from Chiswick High Road; the studios are for booked sessions only.
On 1 July 2022 Adele headlined BST Hyde Park: her first public show in five years.
A royal park in central London, open daily and free to walk.
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Stay
A room on the Strip.
The resort that holds the Colosseum, where she played weekends for two years.
Caesars Palace
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas
The Strip, Las Vegas
The resort around the Colosseum, at 3570 Las Vegas Boulevard South: 3,980 rooms, more than 300 of them suites, in five towers over 85 acres of the Strip. Book through its own site.
Dates, prices, rooms and stock change: confirm with the provider before you travel or buy. A stay or tour is described as a filming location only where the card says so.
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Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
14 of 14 places · 16 of 16 Moments
West Norwood
Norwood Road, West Norwood, south London
Ten minutes at 16
Her first song, Hometown Glory, written about leaving West Norwood.
The BRIT School
60 The Crescent, Selhurst, Croydon
The BRIT
A state performing-arts school in Croydon, with Adele among its former pupils.
Metropolis Studios
The Power House, Chiswick High Road, west London
Studio C
Tom Elmhirst mixes Rolling in the Deep at Metropolis.
Hello, begun
Kurstin and Adele start Hello in a writing room, then at the Fazioli in the live room.
Greg Kurstin’s home studio
Los Angeles: a studio in a private home
Six months later
Hello’s organ and overdubs made at Kurstin’s home studio in Los Angeles.
Abbey Road Studios
3 Abbey Road, St John’s Wood, London
Seventy-seven players
Skyfall recorded at Abbey Road with 77 musicians.
Dolby Theatre
6801 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles
The Oscar
Skyfall wins Original Song; she sings it live for the first time.
Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore, South Kensington, London
The Hall
A 17-song concert at the Royal Albert Hall, filmed and released.
The Pyramid Stage, Glastonbury
Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset
Saturday night
Headlining the Pyramid Stage to roughly 100,000.
Wembley Stadium
Wembley, north-west London
Two of four
Two Wembley nights sung, two cancelled; fans sing outside.
The London Palladium
Argyll Street, Soho, London
Ms McDonald
Emma Thompson’s question brings her old English teacher on stage.
Griffith Observatory
2800 East Observatory Road, Griffith Park, Los Angeles
One Night Only
A secret show at Griffith Observatory, filmed for CBS.
Hyde Park
Hyde Park, central London
Back at home
Her first public show in five years opens with Hello.
The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
Caesars Palace, 3570 Las Vegas Boulevard South, Las Vegas
Weekends
Weekends with Adele: Friday and Saturday nights for two years.
The T-shirt cannon
Stop throwing things, she says, and fires a T-shirt into the crowd.
Messe München
Messestadt Riem, east Munich
Two hundred and twenty metres
Ten nights in a pop-up arena, behind a record-breaking screen.
